#it's ALMOST “there was only one bed”

[the-sand-guardian]

Whumptober 14: Left For Dead

A continuation of days 7 and 13. 

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Cellbit turned the key in the ignition and the van rattled to life, though it sputtered and spat much like a Fed he’d stabbed in the throat. The other car revved its engine once, and Cellbit revved theirs right back. Even in the wake of a fainting episode, Pac had those daredevil tendencies that Cellbit had fallen for several years ago. That was long past both of them, though. 

After a moment, Pac sped off in a cloud of red dust, leaving Cellbit and the others behind within it. Cell was having none of this, and quickly shifted in gear before pressing the pedal to the floor and shooting off after him. The sun was beginning to set over the Wasteland, and the reds and oranges of the sky blended into the red dirt of the ground. They needed to get home quickly before the cold set in for the night. Much like a traditional desert, the Wasteland was sweltering during the day, but someone could almost freeze to death at night. 

Cellbit was honestly a little surprised the other car had let him drive the van. Before the end of the world, he’d already been prone to Highway Hypnosis on his commutes to and from work, but now he was probably even worse about it. When you drove through miles and miles of absolutely nothing, it was easy to get lost in your thoughts. Which he was glad wasn’t happening- 

Headlights. 

He swerved hard to the left, but the other car turned to follow. It was hard to see through the high beams absolutely blinding him, but this car seemed much bigger than the one the other half of the group was in. Roier shouted something from the backseat where he sat with Felps. The other car swerved at them again. Cellbit swore and tried to dodge it, but the car rocked and nearly tipped. 

“What the fuck are you doing?” Roier asked from the back.

“Trying to keep us from getting killed!” 

“Do it carefuller! Fuck, here, let me do it, switch me” 

“No! I’m driving! How am I supposed to switch you?” 

Roier groaned and started to climb towards the front of the van only for Cellbit to have to dodge another swing from the other vehicle. 

“Left! Left, Cellbit, turn left!” He yelled at him. Cellbit quickly swerved left, dodging another swing, but leaving him with enough time to knock against the other vehicle. “Muy bien! Do that again!” 

Cellbit listened and did it again. This time, the other car faltered and backed off a bit. It seemed like maybe they would retreat. Cellbit tried to keep his focus and listen to Roier should he have more instructions, but he didn’t yet. 

“Get ready to slow down” Was all he said when he finally did speak. 

Cellbit didn’t question him. The car behind him flashed their lights at him once more before speeding up quickly ahead of them. Cellbit brought his foot down on the brake and brought the van all the way to a crawl as the other car disappeared into the darkness that now surrounded them. Cellbit stopped the car and slumped against the steering wheel. 

“Fuck raiders.” 

“Next time, I’m driving.” 

Cellbit didn’t argue, but simply shifted the van into park so he could let off the brake as he sat up. Adrenaline still flowed through his veins, and he took several deep breaths to try and settle himself back down. Roier took the seat beside him. By now, he’d moved his bandana to wrap it around his forehead, since the air in the car was mostly breathable. Cellbit tried not to stare, but now that he finally saw the other man’s face, he couldn’t help but think he was absolutely beautiful. Cellbit only hoped that one day he’d be able to see blood spattered over Roier’s face and the glint of power in his eyes- a part of him almost wanted it to be his own blood, too. 

“Oi, Cellbit! He won’t go anywhere if you blink!” Felps teased from the backseat. Cell shot him a glare almost as piercing as the bullet that had hit him earlier, but he could hear Roier let out a lighthearted giggle. Cellbit himself smiled a little before shaking his head. 

Unfortunately, their moment of peace was cut short by a terrible chill. Cellbit looked out the window and into the dark void around them. It was too dark for him to see any nearby buildings to guide off of and the gps had become nearly obsolete in the months since The End. They were lost. Completely and hopelessly lost. The car of their other friends was completely gone, too, and they likely wouldn’t notice their absence until morning. 

Now there was another dilemma: Gas. Either they used the remaining gas in the tank to keep warm and comfortable for the night, or they were able to drive home in the morning. Cellbit turned off the van. 

“We need to find something to cover up with, we don’t have enough fuel to get back and stay warm tonight” Cellbit explained to the others. Felps was still in too much pain to get up and look around, but Roier had no problems digging through the containers in the back of the van for supplies. Cellbit got up and helped him search. In the end, they had found a few cuts of fabric and tarp that would do for the night. 

“You two can share, I’m injured” Felps stated matter-of-factly as he took some fabric and a tarp. Cellbit stared into him again. “What? I’m not wrong. You didn’t have to have a bullet carved out of you without dinner.” 

“He’s got a point,” Roier hummed, already getting himself set up as well. 

“Come on, don’t take his side on this-” Cellbit began to argue. Felps knew exactly what he was doing, and Cellbit was sure of that. He wasn’t going to let him win this if he could help it. 

“I’m not budging. Your knife was in my gut earlier. You can freeze for all I care” Felps rolled over with a wince and shut his eyes. 

Cellbit swore under his breath and rolled his eyes. Fucking Felps. He decided not to argue with the injured and possibly dying man any longer and begrudgingly took his place next to Roier.

“He probably does need the warmth. He lost a lot of blood, Cellbit” Roier explained as though Cellbit hadn’t been the one to fish the bullet out of his friend’s abdomen. 

“Eu sei- He’ll be fine though.” Cellbit laid down and tried to ignore just how warm Roier was. 

“And we will be too. Come on, gatito, I’m not that bad of a cuddler” Roier giggled a bit at his own joke.

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Thank you for reading! I've also posted this to Ao3, where I'll be cataloguing all of my works for this month! I also have 3 other WIP fics, so if you enjoy my works please go show some love over there or feel free to shoot me an ask!

[buwheal]

Hello, Spamton!

How's life? Also, do you have any opinions on the Addisons? (Pink, blue, orange, and yellow)

If so, what do you think of them?

[thelassoway]

Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso Seasons 1-3 » T-shirts

[barksbog]

one of my favorite games to play with my friends is called "find him"

the way it works is:

i pull up austrian houses for sale

stream it to friends (photos are fine but 3D tours are obviously the best)

than we just look through trying to find the cruzifix boy.

when we locate him we all yell "THERE HE IS" "I FOUND HIM" ect.

optional: i will wiggle my mouse cursor over him while my friends point at their screens

that´s it. that´s the game!

a word of warning tho: you may encounter weird houses that haunt you like the "barn cube" and "red roof/wall/gutters kitchen utensil nightmare"

[eggcats]

this is cursed, but the knowledge won't leave me alone, so-

Vox isn't into feet. People have asked, and he can honestly say absolutely not. Luckily for him, no one thinks to ask his opinions on hooves...

[serpentface]

HAUNTING PHOTO TAKEN SECONDS BEFORE DISASTER

[rolandkaros]

[CHANGEOVERS.]

[coridallasmultipass]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BESTEST WIDDLE SNAKEY WAKEY.

I can't believe my son is 18!! I estimated a birth date for him to be about a month before I got him in fall of 2006, since he was such a widdle month-old baby sneky. I always try to get a good birthday pic of him - especially after he eats and gets the good yawns in.

Pretty soon, he'll be off to snake college, for snakes. Dunno how we're gonna afford those ssssnudent loans.

Image description below the cut:

First photo is an albino corn snake (species name: Pantherophis guttatus) peeking out from behind a fake flower on a rocky hide (a house inside the tank where reptiles can feel secure and hidden). The snake is flicking his tongue out. Only his head is visible in the photo. Caption on the photo reads: Demo's 18th birthday. August 9, 2024.

Next photo is the same snake, but in a clear, close-up, detail photo. Each scale is clearly defined. He has red eyes and pink cheeks, and pale white patterns on an off-white body. The scales on his head are shaped to follow the different planes of his face. The scales on his neck (and body, not shown) are uniform and scallop-shaped.

The next three photos are sequential. The same snake appears with his mouth barely open. Then, his mouth is wide open in a yawn. His cheeks look so smooshy. His head is shaped the way a snap hairclip opens, curved upwards, and it's funny and cute. His mouth has ridges inside, but no teeth or fangs are visible (because his teeth are too tiny to be photographed politely, and he does not have any fangs). The last photo in the sequence has the snake with his mouth still open, but the top of his head is a normal shape again as he begins to end the yawn.

[jazzzzzzhands]

I loved my sketches so much, i decided to finish them!

[ipatrichor]

dead boy detectives episode seven thoughts

hey what if i cried. what if I lay down on the floor and curled up in a ball and wept and wailed my little heart out?? what then???

ohhh my god. oh my god. i've said like twice now that this show keeps giving me everything i've ever wanted but it just keeps being true!!! i'm going to sob how does every episode just keep getting better How do the writers know exactly what i want and then do it better than i thought of are they in my head??? oh my godddd this episode was devastating

hey i'm gonna cry. what do you mean edwin died scared and alone so he made sure charles didn't. that's devastating actually!!! he died in the dark and he was scared and he had no one, so he brings charles a lamp and answers his questions about ghosts and reads him a detective story with silly voices. what the hell that's so. i do not have words for this it hits so deeply!!! edwin is so deeply kind in a way that doesn't always come across because he's also a prickly bitch, and i love him so much holy shit

hell was genuinely so unsettling what the fuck. the spider MADE OF DOLL HEADS(??!!!?!?!?!?!) was bad enough, but it was such an incredibly good choice to have it appear empty on the way in and only be able to see all the suffering on the way out. it really upped the creep factor in the first part, and then really made the escape feel frenzied. very well done!! the imagery was insane, i really Believed that this was Actual Hell

actually on that point. there was one detail that meant so so much to me, in a way i'm not quite sure how to explain but will give my best effort. after edwin's conversation with simon, after they reach some kind of closure, the blue light implying that simon is able to move on in some way and maybe leave hell... if someone wasn't raised christian & subsequently deconverted idk if that stands out to anyone else, but. okay basically there's a conversation about how hell, by definition, cannot be just because it's infinite punishment for a finite crime. and that wasn't necessarily the point of the scene, but as someone who's been doing a lot of unpacking stuff around this recently it just. it hit hard man. in a good way! that scene actually means so much to me... god this whole episode is fantastic

crystal confronting daniel!!! my god i am so proud of our girl!!! yess take your agency back and regain control of your life!!!!! also jenny frequently being annoyed by crystal but still following her to a spooky abandoned area with a knife just so she won't have to face her abusive ex alone... god i love jenny. like yeah she's abrasive and kinda a dick but also she truly cannot stop herself from providing support to these two weird as hell teenagers living above her shop.

AND NIKO!!!! god niko was absolutely brilliant this episode... absolutely the mvp of the entire show goddamn, she really read the rules and made that the night nurse's problem <3 i love that for her so much. however i will say something has been worrying me. that magic 8 ball that's supposed to tell you when you're going to die has apparently been consistently saying 'outlook not good' and it's been mentioned twice now. and given that this show doesn't establish things like that and let them go to waste... i am Concerned. not to mention, the scene where it was her and the night nurse talking about zombies?? like idk it could be nothing!!! but also that is classic foreshadowing so i am simply concerned!!!

alright i got most of the immediate thoughts CONFESSION SCENE. HOLY SHIT. okay so i know i'm not super into confessions and i tend to nitpick when fictional characters behave certain ways pertaining to romance depending on whether the narrative promotes it or not (yes, i have a complicated relationship with romance, it came free with the demiromanticism. but also my partner is amazing so if written characters aren't that's just kinda a skill issue? lol). ANYWAY. this scene though was amazing. edwin tells charles how he feels, putting no pressure on charles to respond or feel the same. and charles clearly isn't sure how he feels- it doesn't seem like he's ever thought of edwin in that way before, and he's awkward about it but still assures edwin that even if he doesn't know if he can return those feelings, edwin is still incredibly important to him and nothing's gonna change that.

god it's just. such a good way to handle that scene!! literally everything i hoped for ^^ even if charles doesn't feel the same (which i didn't think he would given they've been hinting at romance with crystal and not building romantic feelings towards edwin the same way they've been building edwin's feelings for him but as always who knows) he still reaffirms how much he cares about edwin, because like i've been saying they're the most important person to each other and it truly does not matter if it's platonic or romantic!!!

i also love how well this lined up with established characterization haha. like, of course charles made a deal with the night nurse and leaped into hell headfirst and alone to rescue edwin, he's impulsive even when he isn't emotionally compromised and he'd never abandon his best mate. of course niko tries to connect with the people around her and ends up being incredibly helpful with a unique insight, that's what she's been doing this whole time! of course crystal runs off to find her own way to hell after being stopped from accompanying charles, she hates feeling useless and consistently endangers herself for the sake of her friends. of course edwin tries to convince simon to escape hell with him, he's heartbreakingly good and has spent the whole show trying to help people no one else can. it's all so... god, they are who they are and i love them so much

anyway i will leave u all with a funny thought i had. i haven't engaged with the fandom outside of my pal noble sorry if this is a joke everyone is already making

the cat king: i'll be here waiting when he escapes hell again, god i'm such a romantic meanwhile, charles breaking into hell:

[14dayswithyou]

Is there a moment in the game where you get everyone together? I also have no idea if most of them already know each other, but it would be super cool to have a day with everyone together 🫢

✦゜ANSWERED: AAAAAA Unfortunately there isn't due to a number of reasons hgsjg ;v;

The main reason being there's no place for it in the storyline I've planned out, and because it wouldn't make sense to have them all meet up and interact with each other.

But from a fundamental point of view: it'd also be difficult for me to accurately track and manage everyone’s health status/relationship bar, display everyone's sprite on the screen (or constantly change between them all if I chose to only display 3 sprites at once), aaaand because it'd be really chaotic having everyone talk at once while still ensuring they have equal amount of screen time.

Also!! Not everyone knows each other, so there'd definitely be some awkward moments between a few of the cast members ^^; But I do agree that it would be cool if they all got to meet each other!! Maybe in a zombie apocalypse AU or somethin jhsdghjj

[starlitangels]

*Lou Bega voice*

Ladies and gentlemen and nonbinary friends, this is Redacted Number Five!

*cue music*

🎶A little bit of Oliver in my life

A little bit Avior by my side

A little bit of David’s all I need

A little bit of Vincent’s what I see

A little bit of Milo in the sun

A little bit of Gavin all night long

A little bit of Elliott here I am

A little bit of you makes he your man🎶

[passerinesoncaffeine]

tonight on thinking about homura and madoka.

[mellotronmkll]

Wverytime I sit down at a computer to make music I get so scared

[skenpiel]

i filled a whole canvas with shitty little rose doodles te other day and this was the only one that came out even half decent LAWL. can u tell i lik e stylizing -_-